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The Ethics of Criticism

Book information

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Year
1990
ISBN
1501728113, 9781501728112
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4157895 bytes)
Pages
257\257
Time added
2018-07-29 14:55:53

Description

Tobin Siebers asserts that literary criticism is essentially a form of ethics. The Ethics of Criticism investigates the moral character of contemporary literary theory, assessing a wide range of theoretical approaches in terms of both the ethical presuppositions underlying the critical claims and the attitudes fostered by the approaches. Building on analyses of the moral legacies of Plato, Kant, Nietzsche, and Freud, Siebers identifies the various fronts on which the concerns of critical theory impinge on those of ethics.

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